Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical

Through specific examples and case studies by specialist writers and academics, this collection of specially commissioned essays looksat current theatre practices across europe.The authors reconsider the possiblities of theatre practice, its relation to history and location and its place in Europe at the turn of the twenty-first century.Very much connected to crucial questions about the meaning of live performance in our media-saturated age, this book is informs and provides insight for students and readers in to the many and varied theatre practices in Europe today.

List of illustrations

vii

Notes on contributors

ix

Acknowledgements

xiii

Foreword from 'across the pond'

xiv

JANELLE REINELT

Introduction

1

(148)

JOE KELLEHER AND NICHOLAS RIDOUT

1 Human stuff presence, proximity and pretend

21

(13)

JOE KELLEHER

2 Investigating the entrails: post-operatic music theatre in Europe

34

(13)

NICHOLAS TILL

3 Encountering memory: Acco Theatre Center's Arbeit macht frei MiToitland Europa

47

(14)

HEIKE ROMS

4 On the border as theatrical space: appearance, dis-location and the production of the refugee

61

(12)

SOPHIE NIELD

5 Foreign bodies: performing physical and psychological harm at the Mladi Levi festival, August 2003

73

(14)

SARAH GORMAN

6 Dying bodies, living corpses: transition, nationalism and resistance in Croatian theatre

87

(19)

MARIN BLAŽEVIC

7 Desire amongst the dodgems: Alain Platel and the scene of seduction

106

(14)

ADRIAN KEAR

8 'Constitutive ambiguities': writing professional or expert performance practices, and the Theatre du Soleil, Paris

120

(16)

SUSAN MELROSE

9 Marshfield Mummers: The Old Time Paper Boys

136

(13)

MIKE PEARSON

10 The gift of play: Übung and the secret signal of gesture

149

(14)

ANDREW QUICK

11 Authority, empowerment and fairy tales: theatre for young people

163

(12)

BRIDGET ESCOLME

12 Make-believe: Societas Raffaello Sanzio do theatre

175

(13)

NICHOLAS RIDOUT

13 After the fall: dance-theatre and dance-performance

188

(11)

ADRIAN HEATHFIELD

14 What state am I in? Or, How to be a spectator

199

(13)

SIMON BAYLY

Index

212

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Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

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